Saying smart words speaks louder than just saying you’re smart, Evan Rachel Wood

If it were any other day, Evan Rachel Wood’s interview in Arena Magazine would maybe piss me off a little, because I won’t lie - I don’t like the girl.

But today is not that day - today I got a completely amazing new desk chair that feels like you’re sitting on the stuff heaven is made of (which is actually red bull and banana pudding if you were interested, but I don’t know why you’d want to sit on that, just work with me), today I also got a 500gb harddrive which brings my total amount of diskpace up to 1.25 tera-fucking-bytes, and today I experienced a rare and addictive feeling I like to call “job satisfaction”.

Yes folks, today was a good day - I want you to remember that when you read this interview. Also remember that Evan Rachel Wood is showing early symptoms of a little disease called Tryingtooharditis and that once she gets the infection removed, she will undoubtedly feel like a complete and utter moron.

ERW on her future music career: “I’m probably more passionate about music than acting, but I don’t want to do it half-assed. And when I do, I get to deal with the rumours flying around that my boyfriend wrote all my songs and that I’m just using him for a singing career! Won’t that be great?”

You’ve made your name playing some fairly gruesome characters. Are teenagers really that smart, calculating, and evil? “People underestimate teenage girls. You turn on MTV and watch 19-year-olds on those dating shows and they’re just morons, so society thinks that’s what teenage girls are like. It’s not all alcohol and casual sex and breasts - some of us do have a brain, so it’s really important to me to play those characters. When I was 14 or 15 there was nobody in the public eye for me to relate to. Maybe Jodie Foster, but that was back in the day. And I was getting mad until I thought, “Why do I have to wait for someone to do it for me? I’ll go out and do it for myself.”

You’re 20 next week. How’s life been as a 21st century teenager? “You know everyone’s so worried about teenagers, sex, STDs — just talk to them! Educate them! I keep putting down MTV, it’s not solely their fault, but there’s not really any music on it any more. We did our music video and it was banned. And then I turn on The Real World or something, and it’s full of people getting drunk, having sex and not even remembering it the next day, and they act like it’s no big deal. It’s stupid.”

What a video it is, by the way…. “Thanks, though it will never be aired. But whatever. It’s on the internet.”